April 6, 2013
The 31st Annual Lt. James Curran Memorial Seminar will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 9:00am to 3:30pm. The seminar will start at 9:00am sharp! Please register on the day – come early.
The topic will be “FDNY Operations During Hurricane Sandy”
Speakers will include
FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief Robert Maynes, Queens Borough Commander
Capt. Robert Morris, FDNY Rescue Co. 1
FDNY Assistant Chief Ronald Spadafora
FDNY Firefighter Eugene Stolowski, Ladder 27
Donation: $25.00 (tax-deductible), which includes entrance, lunch, coffee and dessert. All proceeds will benefit the New York Firefighters’ Burn Center Foundation (www.nyffburncenter.com).
T-shirts, sweatshirts, and training DVDS will be for sale.
Bureau of Training, FDNY
Building #9, Auditorium
Randall’s Island
New York, NY
April 5, 2013
The John Jay Center on Terrorism Friday Seminar Series continues on Friday, April 5, 2013 from 3:00pm to 5:00pm with Arun Kundnani, who will speak on the topic, Radicalization: The Journey of a Concept.
Dr. Kundnani has written widely on race, culture, and counter-terrorism. He is the author of Spooked: How Not to Prevent Violent Extremism (Institute of Race Relations, 2009) and The End of Tolerance: Racism in 21st Century Britain (Pluto Press, 2007). Currently teaching at John Jay College, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism, in The Hague, in 2012. He was formerly a fellow at the Open Society Foundations, and editor of the journal Race & Class. His articles have appeared in the journals Security and Human Rights, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Race & Class, and Critical Muslim. He has also written for the Guardian, the Nation, and CNN.com. His next book, The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror will be published by Verso Books later this year.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Room 630, Haaren Hall
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
March 22, 2013
The John Jay Center on Terrorism will host a seminar on Friday, March 22, from 3:00pm to 5:00pm in Room 964 of the new building of John Jay College. Carlo Strenger will speak on the topic The Politics of Israel, Terrorism, and Pathways to Peace. Strenger is a well-known psychologist, and psychoanalyst who has been publicly involved in Israeli politics and culture since the late 1990s. For years he had a weekly radio talk show, and in the 2003 elections he was on the strategy team of the Labor party.
Strenger’s central claim is that Israel must be understood as a belated country that is currently in a culture war about its identity, with central issues like the relation of religion and state as yet unsolved. He also analyzes the complex, guilt-ridden relation between Europe and Israel, and claims that the Middle Eastern conflict is, among others, intractable because of the exclusive claim of monotheistic religions to absolute truth.
Center on Terrorism
John Jay College (You can enter on Tenth Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets, or on 59th Street halfway between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.)
524 West 59th Street – Room 9.64
New York, NY
March 18, 2013
The Center on National Security at Fordham Law School will host a conference entitled “21st Century Warfare: Law, the Enemy, and the Battlefield,” on Monday, March 18, 2013 from 9:00amto 5:00pm.
The conference will explore the legal authorities for war, the expanding definitions of the ‘enemy’, the evolution of the battlefield, including drone killings and cyber warfare, and the implications of these changes going forward. Political and military leaders, national security and cyber experts, leading journalists, and others will provide a platform for understanding the next phase of America’s international ‘war on terror’ and, in a larger sense, the future of warfare.
This event is free and open to the public. There is a fee for lawyers only for New York CLE Credit.
To register, please click here. To learn more and see an agenda, please click here.
McNally Amphitheater
Fordham Law School
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY
March 14, 2013
The House Committee on Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 3:00pm in 311 Cannon House Office Building. The hearing, entitled “TSA’s Efforts to Advance Risk-Based Security”, will have TSA Administrator John S. Pistole as the witness.
Cannon House Office Building
200-299 New Jersey Avenue SE
Washington, DC 20003
March 14, 2013 – March 15, 2013
The New York City Fire Department in partnership with the FDNY Foundation is offering a two day symposium on March 14, 2013 & March 15, 2013.
FDNY leaders will provide presentations to include: Terrorism – Fire as a Weapon, FDNY Rescue Company Operations, Recent FDNY Safety Initiatives, New FDNY Training Techniques and Commercial Building Management – Collaborating with First Responders.
Space is limited, so please register now & save $75.00!
For more information please call 718-999-0779 or email Dave at salemd@fdny.nyc.gov. You can also register online.
All proceeds from the Symposium benefit the FDNY Foundation.
The FDNY Foundation is the official not-for-profit organization of the New York City Fire Department. The mission of the Foundation is to assist the FDNY and EMS in educating, informing and involving the public in protecting life and property, and support the Department’s operational enhancements.